Bettina John

The TruePop Manifesto is a project with various channels. It was initiated and executed by Belinda Evangelica, one of Bettina John’s 5 Alter Egos that she has been working with since 2012.…

This is a performance similar to a cult gathering where audience members become part of the cult of success. Belinda Evangelica has been successfully touring this show throughout Europe.…

The TruePop Manifesto is a project with various channels. It was initiated and executed by Belinda Evangelica, one of Bettina John’s 5 Alter Egos that she has been working with since 2012. The different forms this project takes range from music and performance art to fashion, installation and motivational speech. Belinda Evangelica is all that: a motivational speaker, fashionista, muse, music producer, writer, instagramer and pinterester.…

This installation has served as a backdrop and stage for several performances and photo- shoots and video-shoots since 2013 featuring Miss Dixie De Rose. She is one of Bettina John’s five Alter Egos that she has been working with since 2012. The persona explores what it means to be an artists and how this manifests in the artist’s life. Sometimes a bit awkward, her raw and unfiltered manners are intense and intriguing at the same time.…

This 15 minutes monologue was conceived by Bettina John’s Alter Ego Miss Dixie De Rose in 2014. It was produced as a video piece and can be performed live. Miss Dixie De Rose and her work is an exploration into the inner world of an artist and what it means to be one. Watching this persona is intriguing and refreshing.…

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This performance took place as part of an artist book exhibition at Trispace Gallery in London in 2014, where Bettina John’s artist book “The Presence of His Absence” was exhibited. Theodosia Fatale, one of Bettina John’s Alter Egos is the protagonist in this book and delivered a speech for gallery visitors followed by her hosting an afternoon tea party.…

This artist book is part of the work “The Presence of His Absence” which comprises photographs, a video installation, a sound piece and a live-performance. The protagonist is Bettina John’s Alter Ego Theodosia Fatale, a femme fatale lost in time and slightly confused about who she is and was.…

This installation was hung in this version at Stour Space in London in 2015 as part of the group exhibition “Save Changes” organised and curated by Bettina John. The installation was made by her Cyberhippie and activist Alter Ego Colbee Hawkins_89.…

This is a video documentation of one of several life-performances with one of Bettina John’s Alter Ego Colbee Hawkins_89. A Cyberhippie and activist, the persona concerns herself with the metaphysical side of life, with rituals and meditation, automatic drawing and painting, with magick and aspects of paganism. She has an endless source of inspiration in these fields, which is reflected, in her rich and colourful aesthetic.…

This work is one of several videos that Bettina John’s Alter Ego designer Emilie Louise Schwartz-Floege has produced in the last years. All of them are published on Youtube but the persona prefers to use Twitter as her outlet.…

A series of water colour paintings.…

This installation will go up in September 2017 in Halle (Saale), Germany as apart of Bettina John’s first solo show (A Success Story/Eine Erfolgsgeschichte).…